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Chapter 208 I was just joking, who knew he would really come

When many people mention Chanel, they always think of it as a French company.

Previously.

But now to be precise, this is a British company 'from France'.

Chanel has undergone a corporate restructuring a few years ago, and its headquarters has moved to the UK, but this does not mean that Paris is not important. Chanel will still do brand announcements, shoot fashion photos, etc. in Paris.

The office they set up in Paris is in a Chanel flagship store on the left bank. Luxury goods can be sold in the store, and a part of it has been cut off as an office area. Now a group of people are sitting around the meeting room, with a strong fragrance.

Many companies can't leave their cigarettes in meetings, especially in some big meetings that are difficult to make decisions.

But Chanel is not like this. Their publicity department has more women, and most of the men in the fashion industry pay more attention to their appearance. They drink alcohol, but they rarely smoke. They dress up every day and wear perfume.

So other people's meetings are full of smoke, and their meetings are mellow and elegant...

Today's meeting is big, big.

The autumn and winter press conferences and catwalks are all over, and the busy year of 2021 has come to an end. Yesterday, I was invited by "ELLE" magazine to lead the team to complete a group of works, also to promote their spring and summer fashion.

This year's autumn and winter are still too far away, so by the way, I patted a set of autumn and winter clothes that I didn't use in the previous catwalk.

This group of shots is useless, but it cannot be ranked in the overall shooting plan. If the photographer shoots well and is selected, it is just an inside page work, and it is absolutely impossible to be on the cover.

But he suddenly became angry.

It became inexplicably popular, and since the heroine of the story is Alizee, many French people are now like chihuahuas in estrus, frantically calling for their idols, making the works of this unknown new photographer spread farther and farther.

But even this photographer is a trifle.

What is the big deal?
From yesterday to now, the people's praise and praise throughout the night is the major issue they must solve.

The leader of the resident office in Paris is from a publicity background. Now she is sitting in the main seat of the meeting room, and the projector opposite is the person from the British headquarters. She vented her temper at the designer: "Didn't you say that this year you will be popular? Is it Xiaoxiangfeng? What kind of wind is this now?"

The designer is also very speechless, can we blame this?
Sometimes the so-called fashion is like this. The brand side can freely shape this year's popular styles. They say something is popular, and the fashion-seeking people below will wear it according to the styles they release.

But sometimes, like now.

As long as most people think that a certain kind of clothes look good and want to buy them enthusiastically, a fashion will be formed.

Two fashions, one top-down and one bottom-up.

Anyway, there is no reason to blame the designer.

The blame is on the fact that the French are so unpredictable now... He is British, and he used to think that Alizee was good, but now he only thinks that she is not as good-looking as Keira Knightley, and they are all stars of the same period.

Boom boom boom!
Someone knocked on the door of the conference room, and seeing the leader watching over, he said, "Mr. Delrin is here, and he brought the photographer from yesterday."

"Okay, let's go right away."

She still looks at the designer in the projection with an expression of displeasure, but in fact there is no lens in the projection, and it seems to both of them that they are actually looking at other places.

You said to rely on young people, trendy brands, and prints. As a result, I was instantly killed by photos taken by others as soon as I started to promote.

If you don't blame you, who are you to blame?

She doesn't want to blame the photographer who took the work, because she likes it herself.

She felt that women born in the 80s would rarely hate this photographer after understanding the difficulty and characteristics of these photos.

What do you hate about him?

Do you still hate other people taking pictures of yourself when you were young?

One minute later, she was in a hurry to meet the two photographers who were hanging out in the lounge, and said to the designer:

"In any case, you have to change your design direction. At present, the popularity of retro has only generated a high fever in France, but I feel that as long as this photographer shoots more such works, the enthusiasm will soon spread to worldwide."

"You're exaggerating, Isa."

"Oh, you have to remember what you said now, I will contact the headquarters again, whether you want it or not, this season's spring and autumn catwalks must go back to the 80s!"

Her status in Chanel is not low, and the main site is in Paris.

Paris Fashion Week, she can still talk.

Since major brands release their own fashion trends every year, why can't we be retro this year?

After turning off the connection, she looked at the group of people sitting at the table and said, "You know what I'm thinking, let's break up and go do our own things."

She waved her hand, and the group of people below dispersed instantly.

After everyone had left, she sat down with ease, sorted out her makeup, and prepared to use her perfect state to receive the two photographers. Delrin didn't need to explain, currently France is the most fashion-savvy photographer.

As for Chen Xing, she is a photographer who she feels will definitely have a place in Paris in the future.

Isa is 41 this year. After graduating from an unknown university, she joined the fashion industry. It has been nearly [-] years now. Her views on fashion are different from designers, which is why she had conflicts with designers before. disagreement.

She thinks fashion should not be the brand leading the people, but the people creating the fashion, and the brand following the trend.

Only in this way can it be possible to continue to grow, instead of staying on the credit book to eat the laurels.

A few minutes later, she led a few people into the lounge, and the two young people inside immediately ended their conversation and stood up to shake hands with her.

They are all so young, Yisha's eyes light up.

Delrin is completely dressed in the fashion industry, the kind that will attract attention when walking outside, while Chen Xing is younger, with a height of nearly 1.8 meters [-], and he is not as thin as the Huaxia boy she saw before. worthy of the clothes he wears.

They don't look like ordinary orientals either.

Yisha has a complete European aesthetic, and she also thinks that Chen Xing is good-looking and has a charming charm.

"Hello." Chen Xing said, shaking hands with her.

Delrin hugged everyone familiarly and introduced: "This is Chanel's biggest leader in Paris, Ms. Isa Denton. If you are as handsome as me, then I allow you to call her Sister Isa."

Yisha slapped Delrin's hand in a disfigured manner, smiled and said to Chen Xing: "Hello, Chen, I heard about you a long time ago, you have a very good understanding of fashion, you won the photography award Deserved."

"Thank you."

Otherwise, Chen Xing could just call her elder sister casually, so the relationship is still up to that point.

Isa didn't have time to pay attention to Delrin, so she asked everyone to sit down first, and then said to Chen Xing: "Actually, these photos were bought by Ms. Alizee yesterday. I had a chat with her before you came. She is willing to give you [-] euros as a reward."

"Wow, one hundred thousand, is Alizee serious?" Delrin said without holding back.

Is 10 euros much?

Not too much for many people in business, but for photographers, too much.

Chen Xing only took a few photos.

Delrin was invited to "ELLE" yesterday to shoot a cover and 31 inside pages, which cost less than [-] yuan, and his fee is not low. In the entire French commercial photography circle, he is Fees are among the best.

Smaller magazines dare not invite him to shoot.

Isa nodded and said:

"Of course it's true. I won't lie to you about this, but this is also because Alizee is very grateful to you. Chen, you are very lucky. If the copyright is still with us, according to industry rules, we can only I can give you ten thousand euros."

The biggest difference between commercial photography and other photography is that its photographers are valuable.

Delrin has a price, 2000 euros for one inside page and 12000 euros for a cover. Although this is just the price marked in his studio, it has actually increased, but it is always floating in this area.

This is the price of a top commercial photographer.

If Chen Xing's works hadn't been bought by others, even if Yisha admired Chen Xing again, she wouldn't be able to give him so much money.

And if she wasn't bought, she wouldn't be able to see these photos.

Thinking of this, she looked at Prieto, who was sitting next to him. The head designer of the Paris branch was already sweating in this kind of weather. It's so ugly.

Chen Xing also followed her gaze, was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled enthusiastically.

"Mr. Prieto is here too? I didn't notice you before, sorry."

He was very impressed with this Mr. Prieto.

What he said made Chen Xing start to think about whether other people's aesthetics were too different from his own, and whether he would never apply this style of photography in the future, but who knew it would become popular on the Internet overnight.

Sure enough, practice is the only criterion for testing truth.

"Haha, haha, yes, I am here too, sir is really amazing."

Yesterday he said that if Chanel wanted to enter the classical field, it would definitely invite Chen Xing to take pictures... But the expression at that time was obviously the kind of arrogance that you will never appear in front of me again.

No one can know how much Prieto regretted.

on horseback.

Why did I talk to Chen Xing in that tone yesterday? I pretended a little, and said that sentence in a tone of regret, or a tone of admiration, so that he would never be so embarrassed when he saw Chen Xing today.

Because I really want to ask Chen Xing to shoot...

Yisha didn't know what was going on, she just felt that Prieto, like the designers at the headquarters, didn't know anything about fashion, and just missed the photos taken by Chen Xing.

Isa continued:

"I asked Mr. Delrin to invite you here today. First, I want to say thank you in person. Ms. Alizee will personally give you your reward. The second thing is to make an appointment for you to come here in half a month. Shoot in the same style as you did yesterday."

She thought that half a month should be enough time for designers to get out of retro fashion.

No matter what others think, she has already decided that Chanel will hold a big show in Paris this year, probably in June, and specially arrange the scene to feel like the 80s, and then invite Chen Xing to shoot it.

Just like what Alizee said yesterday when she asked her to buy photos, retro style never lags behind any era.

"But the price is definitely not as high as Ms. Alizee gave you. I can only give you a work of one thousand euros at most. The work will be published on our website in the end. Of course, we will also mark it as your work, so that you Agree."

"can."

Chen Xing nodded and agreed without much thought. He made an appointment with him half a month in advance, and he was sincere, so there must be time.And the woman in front of her also really liked her work, which Chen Xing could feel.

The two began to discuss the details of cooperation and added a friend.

Friends and followers on Facebook are different. The communication with friends is basically domestic WeChat, QQ, and followers are basically followed by fans. There is a mixed mode of Biz and Weibo.

Every time Delrin came over, he was basically the protagonist, but today the protagonist has become Chen Xing, which he is not used to.

But also very interesting.

Prieto sat on the leather sofa as if there was a needle under his buttocks, and he couldn't sit still at all. He was afraid that the two of them would tell Isha what happened during the shooting at ELLE yesterday.Although Isa can't control the photographers in the UK headquarters, it's okay to manage them.

So he kept staring at Prieto, showing a weird smile from time to time.

It made Prieto even more nervous.

This meeting didn't last long. Chen Xing and Yisha separated after discussing the cooperation. Today, Chanel and Alizee also became popular. She needs to continue to heat up this sudden heat.

Delrin was a little dissatisfied.

I pushed the BBC program to watch the fun, and that's it?

He almost made Prieto's fears come true.

But held back.

Everyone has known each other for so many years, there is no need to do such things that disgust others, but it is of no benefit to oneself, let's save it for later and tease him, who made this person look down on his little brother.

But then again, he himself didn't see that Chen Xing's works had such great potential.

Among other things, Chen Xing is definitely full of audience popularity. Just like what the teacher said when introducing Chen Xing, Chen Xing's works can be understood by ordinary people.

What a great junior.

Walking out of the Chanel flagship store, Delrin said, "Let's go, eat, I'm hungry."

Chen Xing nodded and said, "Okay, but you can't ask for this meal, I'll come."

"Okay, okay, you should come to treat me."

France's food culture is as famous as China's, and their love for food also has something in common with China's.There are many places for people to eat, such as coffee shops and restaurants. Most of them have small facades, but their decorations have their own characteristics.

(End of this chapter)